Combination-tool



A. FRUMMI-NG.

' COMBINATION TOOL.

Patented June 11,- 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST FRGMMING, OF HANOVER, KANSAS.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,156, dated June 11,1889.

Application filed August 8, 1888.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST FRoMMINe, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hanover, in the county of lVashington and State of Kansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools;and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to combination-tools, and has for its object theprovision of a tool that can be used as a hammer, a hatchet, awire-cutter, a pair of pinchers, a pair of tongs or pliers, and asaw-set. Any one of these tools will perform its work as efficiently asa tool especially constructed for the particular kind of work. By havingthese several tools combined in one work requiring the use of two ormore of the tools can be performed with greater dispatch than if aseparate tool be employed for each kind of work, because there need beno delay arising from changing tools and perhaps looking for a misplacedtool, which causes vexation, added to the loss of time. This tool isespecially designed for domestic use and for farmers or those engaged inthe construction of wire fences, as it combines all the requisitesnecessary for such work, providing a tool for trimming the fence-posts,driving the nails or staples, cutting the wire, twisting the ends ofwires together, and a tool for extracting the nails or staples. Broadlyspeaking, a tool of this nature is not wholly new, but a tool of myspecific construction, having its component parts arranged in theparticular manner proposed by me and shown in the drawings, is new. Inno single tool heretofore constructed is embodied the tools disposed inthe manner proposed by me, and which hereinafter will be moreparticularly described and claimed. p

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective $erial No. 282,201. (Nomodel.)

View of a tool of my invention; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the upperend of the lever, having the pole or hammer; Fig. 3, a perspective viewof the upper end of the lever, having the blade or hatchet; and Fig. 4,a section on the line X X of Fig. 1, looking down or in the direction ofthe arrow, showing the levers open.

The tool is composed of the two levers A and B, which are pivotedtogether near their upper ends by the bolt 0. The upper ends of thelevers curve to form the jaws D D, which comprise the pinchers. The poleor hammer E projects from the jaw D a little above the pivotalconnection of the two levers, and the blade or hatchet F extends fromthe jaw D in an opposite direction to the pole or hammer E. The lever Ais provided with a hub a and the lever B with a corresponding hub Z).These two hubs a and Z) are placed alongside of one another and are heldtogether by the bolt 0. The hub a is onlyhalf the thickness of the leverand the jaw bordering 011 the said hub, and the hub bis also only halfthe thickness of the lever and the jaw, so that the sides of the hubswill come flush with the sides of the levers when the levers are placedtogether. The hubs a and b have slots or grooves m and m, respectively,formed obliquely across their ends, which form cutting-edges 011 theinner sides of the hubs. The oblique direction of the grooves obtains asharper edge than if they extended parallel with the axis or bolt 0 ofthe levers. The levers are brought close together on their inner facesat G to form the jaws g g of the tongs or pliers. The saw-set isobtained by the notch H in the blade F.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, 1s

The herein described combination tool,

composed of the levers A and B, having the recessed hubs a and b, whichhubs are pivoted together and have oblique grooves to form awire-cutting device, the outer ends of the levers being curved to formthe jaws D and D, and the inner portions of the levers bor- In testimonywhereof I affix my signature (lering on the hubs being brought closetoin presence of two Witnesses. gether to form the jaws g and g, thelever A AUGUST FROMMING having the blade F, which is provided with thesaw-set H, and the lever B having the Witnesses:

pole or hammer E, substantially as described, EDWARD BINOK, for thepurpose specified. F. A. MEoKEL.

